Lesson Plans for Educators

EPA has compiled a suite of hands-on, interactive lesson plans to complement and make use of the material on this website. The plans, aimed primarily at middle school students, work systematically and individually to reinforce students’ knowledge of climate change, as well as enhance skills across multiple disciplines. The lessons are correlated to national science standards.

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Students learn about the carbon cycle, how concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth’s atmosphere vary as the seasons change, and how the overall amount of CO2 is increasing in the atmosphere and changing the carbon cycle.